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] [ ] [ ] Networking and collaboration has been APCD's highlight in this quarter. APCD collaborated with various external organizations to organize training courses to empower persons with disabilities in the region. The big event was the Pacific Sub-regional Training on Capacity-Building for Self-help Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (CBSHOD) held in Papua New Guinea to expand the disability network with the South Pacific Sub-regional countries. Tremendous outcomes were expressed from the regional training. In addition, APCD networked with other disability-related organizations to fully support the International Conference on Tsunami Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities held in Phuket.
Apart from trainings, APCD followed-up with focal point and associate organizations in several countries to monitor activities implemented. APCD's stakeholders were impressed with the networking and collaboration to empower persons with disabilities in Malaysia, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Lao PDR, India, and China.
As for APCD's training courses, APCD has succeeded in hosting the ICT for All: Training of ICT for Persons with Print Disabilities, Refresher Training to Strengthen Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) through a Participatory Comprehensive Approach and the CBR Network Seminar with participants from Cambodia, China, Fiji, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Viet Nam.
In this quarter, APCD networked with disability-related organizations in China and India to expand the development of the information networking. From this, APCD has received fruitful coordination to exchange information and improved the techniques to localize disability-related information to the grassroots organizations.
APCD has also promoted and support our stakeholders the highlights and the ratification procedures of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Tentative APCD activities for the next 6 months (April - September 2007):
* Training for Thai persons only
| Tentative Activities | April | May | June | |||||||||
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| Newsletter 19 | ||||||||||||
| Seminar on Networking for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities * | 30 Apr - 2 May | |||||||||||
| Seminar on Peer-Counseling * | 15 -18 | |||||||||||
| Training on Education Material Production * | 21 - 30 | |||||||||||
| UNESCAP-APCD High-level Stakeholders' Workshop on Empowerment of People with Disabilities and a Barrier-free Society through Networking and Collaboration | 6 - 8 | |||||||||||
| Training on Non-handicapping Environment * | 11 - 15 | |||||||||||
| Meeting of Disability Equality Training (DET) Curriculum Designing * | 20 - 21 | |||||||||||
| Training of Trainers on DET * | 25 - 29 | |||||||||||
| Tentative Activities | July | August | September | |||||||||
| Newsletter 20 | ||||||||||||
| The First Seminar on DET * | 12 | |||||||||||
| The Second Seminar on DET * | 24 | |||||||||||
| The Third Seminar on DET * | 6 | |||||||||||
| The Fourth Seminar on DET * | 16 | |||||||||||
| DET Evaluation * | 29 - 30 | |||||||||||
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